Places to Explore

• Brugge

  Brugge has tangled streets, narrow canals, handsome squares, and old gabled buildings that were such a powerful magnet more than a century ago. Its limits now incorporate the port of Zeebrugge, and it is... (more)

• Damme

  A quiet agricultural village with a population of about 10,000 Flemings, Damme lies in a peaceful polder landscape of waving fields and far horizons. Walking its streets today feels much as it would have... (more)

• Knokke-Heist

  Knokke-Heist (which includes five beach resorts—Knokke, Heist, Alberstrand, Het Zoute, and Duinbergen) is an area of dunes and sea, purple wildflowers and groomed golf courses. Heist, Alberstand... (more)

• Koksijde

  Koksijde and Sint-Idesbald are small resorts, separated by a few kilometers, that offer more than beach life. Koksijde has the highest dune on the coast, the Hoge Blekker, 108 feet high.... (more)

• Oostende

  A transportation and fishing center and an old-fashioned, slightly raffish resort, Oostende (pronounced ohstender in Flemish), otherwise known as Ostend in English and Ostende in French, leads a double... (more)